Creality's new 40W Falcon2 laser engraver is a brilliant tool for folks like me and you who don't want to get involved in the geeky details. It feels like a complete product, not a half-finished Kickstarter project like some lasers. It's compact, light and solidly engineered. Compared with a CO2 , it's lower cost, portable and doesn't need water cooling. I was about to buy one for my business when Creality offered to send me a Falcon2 40W plus enclosure and honeycomb bed. Serendipity or what eh? Marvellous.
In this episode I have a first look at the precision of the cuts, kerf widths, slewing speed and dimensional accuracy, using sub-micrometre precision gauge/gage blocks, a granite surface table, height gauge and dial test indicator to find if the claimed precision is delivered in a real-world implementation.
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Affiliate Links for the 40W model by country: (sorry for the mess of links, I'll get it all sorted asap)
US https://bit.ly/48uQkFj
DE https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0C8N8PGMC?maas=maas_adg_AD45668F5BD81FBD77CCC8FDC9BF6118_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
FR https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0C8N8PGMC?maas=maas_adg_A119B2755542AB161E8B7EA28C880B5A_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
IT https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0C8N8PGMC?maas=maas_adg_5540296DFF28CA71662174D7060F6A2D_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
ES https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0C8N8PGMC?maas=maas_adg_3846D4D06BC163B27CA011E13A7C1E3F_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
Code: 20FALCON (should be applied automatically, but check)
Affiliate links for the collection:
US https://store.creality.com/pages/laser-engravers-home?aid=ZBUS
EU https://store.creality.com/eu/pages/engraver-collection?aid=ZBEU
DE https://store.creality.com/de/pages/creality-laser-gravierer-und-lasermodule-bis-zu-35-off?aid=ZBDE
UK https://store.creality.com/uk/pages/engraver-collection?aid=ZBUK
AU https://store.creality.com/au/pages/engraver-collection?aid=ZBAU
CA https://store.creality.com/ca/pages/laser-engravers-home?aid=ZBCA
Code：FALCONALL (should be applied automatically, but check)
5m/ 16ft USB-A to USB-C right-angle connector https://amzn.to/3RZFAsP or https://amzn.to/3PMiTFM should work, or search for "Syntech Link Cable 16 FT Compatible with Meta/Oculus Quest 3" or "Syntech Link Cable 5m Compatible with Meta/Oculus Quest 3"
Future videos will cover some of the more intricate measurements, looking at the kerf width of cuts at different depths, and a bit more detail about how the eight diodes are combined and focussed using Fast-Axis Collimation lenses.
Full disclosure, Creality are paying me a fee for this video, but they haven't asked me to amend anything. I'm a total beginner with diode CNC lasers. I've used other folks' CO2 machines and I once got to play with a room-sized 100 gigawatt pulsed laser, but this is my first. The Falcon2 took less than five minutes to unbox and get working. I had to learn how to use Lightburn, but that was painless once I'd worked out that the images I was trying to engrave were not formatted correctly.
This video is about my first stumbling attempts to product labelling, containers and branding for the microwave radio communications equipment I manufacture. As with all things, I have literally no idea what I'm doing.
Letraset Paul Henning, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Transfers Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
AR88 Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons